{"id":925,"date":"2010-05-05T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=925"},"modified":"2010-05-03T23:42:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T06:42:38","slug":"sewing-up-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/sewing-up-a-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Up a Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve managed to plow through all the stuff that I had on my sewing “to do” list and even some things that weren’t on my list.<\/p>\n

I LOVE sewing, but I do hate the mess and chaos of having my sewing room consist of my dining room.<\/p>\n

Sewing CONSUMES me and while I enjoy the creative outlet……my house….she is not happy nor clean right now.<\/p>\n

BUT……..I AM FINISHED.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m almost finished. I have a few ends to tie off and sew in and then I’m really, REALLY done.<\/p>\n

I’ve packed away all of my sewing stuff and am planning on bringing it out to work on a few gifts for family and friends after June 1st…..ya know, in the last few weeks when I’m trying to keep myself busy.<\/p>\n

I did manage to make a second crib sheet for the little crib and while I debated making a third one – I was really ready to just put every things away and be done for a month.<\/p>\n

I made these bibs from some hand towels and some spare fabric that I had left over.<\/p>\n

\"Bibs\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I’ll use these at some point, even if not right away and since I took this picture, I have managed to sew the velcro on, so they are completely finished.<\/p>\n

I’ve made about 30 diaper wipes. I cloth diaper and so it only makes sense to me to also use cloth wipes. I have the perfect container to store these little square wipes in and it will fit about 20 of these so I’ll have a few on hand in case I run out or also to keep in the diaper bag.<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

They have cotton on one side and terry cloth on the other. I used 3 hand towels that I had up in my linen closet and then some extra terry cloth that I had left over after I made the very next item on the list……<\/p>\n

A Baby Towel…..<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It’s a HUGE towel 36″ x 36″ square and although I didn’t have enough of the patterned material to make the hood, I improvised and made the hood out of the terry and edged it with a strip of the fabric. It’s the perfect size to wrap a baby up in and it’s big enough to still use on your toddler. My sister bought me one very similar for Josiah and I’ve LOVED it.<\/p>\n

This was a SUPER fun project and my only “issue” is that I’ve never worked with this large of a piece of terry cloth and somewhere between measuring it and sewing it to the backing material – it stretched out some and is not “perfect”. If you know me, you know that I LOVE perfect, BUT….I plan on making more of these and giving them away as gifts (so I’m sure to perfect my towel sewing technique.) And……when the towel is folded in thirds and then in thirds again, it tucks up nicely into a perfect square inside the hood and that…..that is almost perfection in and of itself and regardless, it looks absolutely darling all folded up and would make an amazing gift for a baby or a toddler.<\/p>\n

I also made some washable breast pads. This was something that I’d not planned on making, and I really don’t remember how I thought of making these, but VOILA!!!!! Here they are. <\/p>\n

\"Breast<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Some of these are just a layer of terry cloth and a layer of cotton and some of them have a layer of wool in between the cotton and the terry cloth. They are certainly bulkier than a pair of reusable ones that I bought with Siah, and definitely, DEFINITELY bulkier than regular disposables BUT….I will give them a shot and if they work at all, I’ll use them around the house when and where boob circles or ridges really don’t matter.<\/p>\n

Again, these are from the re-purposed hand towels and the left over cotton from the Quilt and so are these next items…<\/p>\n

\"Burp<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Burp cloths! I’ve made 4 of these, but I think that I’ll probably mostly just use these in the diaper bag for when we go out.<\/p>\n

I did also make what we would call a “sucky blanket” for the baby to hold and cuddle. <\/p>\n

\"Sucky<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I just used the left over scraps and pieces from the big quilt and randomly pieced together this small quilt. It’s very cute and I’d like to quilt the same stars into it that we sewed into the large quilt.<\/p>\n

Now, I just have to figure out where I want to store everything> Right now, it’s all piled on top of the baby’s change table.<\/p>\n

I have a couple more projects that I’m planning on doing – easy ones that will just add a little “something extra” to the baby’s area of the room and I’ll post about them as I finish them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve managed to plow through all the stuff that I had on my sewing “to do” list and even some things that weren’t on my list. I LOVE sewing, but I do hate the mess and chaos of having my sewing room consist of my dining room. Sewing CONSUMES me and while I enjoy the … Continue reading “Sewing Up a Storm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-goodness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}